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PROF. STEPHEN CARTER: Egypt Proves Bush Right. ?Not long ago, President George W. Bush was conside?

By Glenn Reynolds

PROF. STEPHEN CARTER: Egypt Proves Bush Right. “Not long ago, President George W. Bush was considered naive for suggesting that the promotion of democracy in the Arab world should be a staple of American foreign policy. Two years ago, the same charge was whispered against President Barack Obama. . . . As of today, that essentially racist assumption is dead. That is the lesson of the popular revolution that has overthrown the ruler of Tunisia and caused the seemingly eternal president of Egypt to promise not to run for another term. . . . The much-maligned Bush Doctrine included a military component?fighting our foes on their soil rather than ours?that President Obama has fully adopted. It also included a moral component?the use of American influence to spread democracy and freedom?that was only rarely emphasized, perhaps because the Bush administration followed its own moral strategy only rarely.” We haven’t seen a lot of that from the Obama Administration, either, which is too bad. I think if we’d kept up the momentum in 2005 we’d be better-positioned now.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 02, 2011 (boomark / email).